Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

nicksaviking

Community Moderator
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    25,650

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    126

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by nicksaviking

  1. nicksaviking
    Another great article Parker. His fastball is down a full MPH. That's not always a big deal, but perhaps it is in Phil's case. He doesn't have a changeup, instead his off speed pitch is his curve, which as actually UP a MPH. There's still a sizable difference between the two pitches though, and since the curve breaks across so many planes, it probably isn't as crucial to have a great velocity differential as it is the changeup. Hughes also is trowing his cutter less this year, 15.7% down from last year's 20.7%. These changes might be small, but I don't think it's out of the question that they may have some impact on his results.
  2. nicksaviking
    I'd much rather have quality innings than a quantity of innings. When we're talking about 12-13 man pitching staffs, the guys in the pen should never be too tired. Put the ball in the catcher's mitt. Keep the ball out of play and you take chance out of the equation. I don't know why, as a fan of a Minnesota team, anyone is OK with letting chance/fate/luck/The Gods have a role in 85% of the at bats.
  3. nicksaviking
    Nice chart, pretty interesting. However, the top ten on that list aren't consistant with strikeouts. Not exactly consistant anyway. It does appear that five of the top ten teams from your list are among the worst ten at strikeouts, while three are in the top ten. Only two are in the middle of the pack. Perhaps if your goal is to be as efficient as possible, either get a lot of strikeouts, or very few strikeouts. The middle ground isn't the place to be here. That being said, pitch efficency isn't something I'm overly concerned with. Of the teams in the top 10 in K/9, only two, the Brewers and the Padres are outside of the top 10 in team pitching WAR. Meanwhile, only 3 of the bottom 15 teams in K/9 are NOT in the bottom 15 of WAR. I'll take a staff that gets outs without putting the ball in play over the staff that throws fewer pitches if those were my only two choices.
  4. nicksaviking
    I agree, KLaw goes a little overboard sometimes though. I'm not sure why he does chats, he doesn't seem to be able to handle anything that resembles a disagreement and the point of a chat is to interact with baseball fans who, duh, have a team bias usually. That being said, I don't think he dislikes the Twins, I just think he dislikes everything. He doesn't seem like a person who enjoys many things, even baseball.
  5. nicksaviking
    It really did have a feel of a piece written about a subject he hadn't seen. Still, it really wasn't too off base. Actually, the one thing I think was a little off base was the idea that Molitor was using Perkins more wisely. Perk is generally pitching in the highest leverage situations, but that's simply because it's always the ninth. Baumann even commented more than once that the Twins played in a lot of one run games, so it doesn't take a genius to figure out that in a one run game, the 9th is always going to be a high leverage situation, well unless it's only a one run game because the closer himself made it that way. Not to take anything away from Molitor, it's just that other than the couple times he got an extra out in the 8th, I can't think of one instance where Gardy wouldn't have done the exact same thing with Perkins.
  6. nicksaviking
    Good luck with that. He gave up a run in his 3 1/3 innings of work last tiime out, it's over for him.
  7. nicksaviking
    Yes, this kind of rule should only be in place if they change the CBA so teams have the ability to void the contract of these guys.
  8. nicksaviking
    Agree, buy you know there is one number up there that the organization isn't going to like very much. The 5.2 BB/9 is going to cover up the 3.6 H/9, even though the limit of hits is much more important to preventing runs than the limiting of walks.
  9. nicksaviking
    MLB probably has little desire for the broadcasters and media to have prime time playoff games be filled with talk about steroid cheats, which of course would happen when Santana takes the mound in October.
  10. nicksaviking
    I think he's here because a couple of front office guys are having a bet to see how far they can alienate Lester Oliveros before he snaps.
  11. nicksaviking
    I'm OK if DH is bad if it's being used as a rotational spot so more young guys get MLB at bats.
  12. nicksaviking
    One of those names certainly sticks out from the others. 25-year-old Bumgarner won the WS despite those veterans. Hudson, Peavy and Vogelsong all fell somewhere between terrible to historicly awful last post season. Also, under the scnario where the Twins go with four aging vets, that leads me to belive that young(ish) Kyle Gibson is the default Madison Bumgarner?
  13. nicksaviking
    While I agree with the thoughts on WAR (Aaron Harangue is top 10) I also don't care what his WAR or any other nuber was, only because I care what it will be going forward. The way baseball is played now is telling us that you don't want pitchers past their early 30's. We all should know by now that you don't pay for past success. Just because we haven't seen the decline yet doesn't mean it's not looming.
  14. nicksaviking
    Which seems to be an OK number for a #2 hitter.
  15. nicksaviking
    I think you answered your own question.
  16. nicksaviking
    I would say "lived" up to the hype, past tense. Only three pitchers over 32 were in the top 20 WAR last year, and only three are in the top 20 this year. Now 31-year-old Hamels is not among the top 20. In the post steroid era, pitchers have not aged well past their early 30's. I don't know why we would assume Hamels will be the exception.
  17. nicksaviking
    Probably, fans want the good stuff ASAP and we can be unreasonable some times. This year the team is winning, and there are obviously arguements to be made about not to screwing with the winning chemistry. That wasn't the case the last four years. The whole team stunk, there was no reason a May, Meyer or Gibson couldn't have stunk with them while learning at the MLB level starting in May or June once losing a year of service time was no longer an issue or when the club was out of contention. Those were usually the same date.
  18. nicksaviking
    Eduardo Escobar: all the great Delmon Yonng defensive flavor, now in a bite-sized package.
  19. nicksaviking
    Dang, I was going to guess Julio Urias.
  20. nicksaviking
    Problem solved for 2015. Come 2017 you're locked in to two 34-year-olds, a 33-year-old and a 32-year-old in your starting rotation. This year is fun, but if this ship is finally turning around, 2017 is when this team should hopefully truly contend. Though probably not with that many aging starters.
  21. nicksaviking
    I've asked this question a couple times now as there has been little position experimentation with these players. I say little, but there has been some. The Twins won't trade Plouffe as they're contending, but they still may want Sano up. If they want Sano to be the 3B of the future, and it sure looks like they do, you can't move him to DH, even for the rest of the year, even if it's fun to watch these guys play well, Sano needs his reps at 3B, he can't take the rest of the year off. Again. Plouffe got plenty of 1B reps this spring and has gotten a few games there this year. My money is on Plouffe and Sano sharing 3B, Plouffe and Mauer sharing 1B and Mauer and Sano sharing DH. I don't like clogging up the DH spot with only two players, but the team was going to clog it up with one when Vargas was up.
  22. nicksaviking
    Over the past four years, I kind of got used to thinking any kind of ranking higher than 30th was pretty good. Maybe we can raise the bar to 24th now. But let's not get too crazy.
  23. nicksaviking
    Still on the shelf. Someone probably knows why he's out but I and Google do not. The only hint that I can gather is from his Twitter feed in which multiple times he has commented on how excited he is to see a movie called Pitch Perfect. Upon further research (see: asked the wife) I am told that he is actually likely referring to the movie Pitch Perfect 2 which is a musical about female acapella groups. The logical explanation from this is that he has been suspended.
  24. nicksaviking
    The All-Star game sees Felix Hernandez turn to Chris Sale to David Price. I'm guessing the AL team might show a different line score than if it was Kyle Gibson into Brian Duensing into Blain Boyer, or even Kyle Gibson into Trevor May into Tyler Duffy, if you're suggesting to just go with starters. The Twins starters aren't Albers and Walters anymore. I'm critical of them, but I wouldn't even make that comparason. Besides, even if the Twins don't have Kershaw, you're talking about potentially taking 50 innings each away from Hughes, Gibson and May and giving them to inferior pitchers. That's a lot of innings.
  25. nicksaviking
    I would like someone to ask Ryan if there is a plan in place for Sano and Plouffe to occupy the same lineup. I wouldn't expect Ryan to divulge exactly what the plan is, but I'd like to know if there actually is one.
×
×
  • Create New...